LOGINShare
chapter 295
publish date:
2026-09-18 07:45:45
Latest chapter
The Billionaire's Secret Bride chapter 565
Point of View: Elena“Do not feel sorry for me, Mrs. Sterling. People who feel sorry for me always want something. Tell me what you want, and I will tell you whether I can give it.”Mira Reyes said it from the top of a flour sack, in the dry storeroom behind the hotel kitchen, at six o’clock on Monday morning. She sat with her knees pulled up and her apron balled in her fists. The room was cold and smelled of salt and sacking. A single bulb hung over her head, and in its light I could see the dark circles under her eyes.Vanessa had called me at five. She had said, she will not talk to me, I am her boss, but she once told me you were the only person who ever asked her about her drawings. I had put on my coat without a word.I sat down on the next sack. Dust puffed up around me. For a while, neither of us spoke.I took a small thermos from my bag and poured tea into its lid. I held it out. Mira looked at it for a long time, and then she took it. Her fingers were red and cracked from ho
The Billionaire's Secret Bride chapter 564
Point of View: Alexander“Look at this. I have carried it for thirty years, and tonight I want you to tell me whether it was a memory or a wound.”Marcus laid something small and flat on the sticky table of the booth. It was a folded sugar packet, gone brown and brittle with age. It had been creased into the shape of a tiny boat, with a pointed bow and a square little sail. One corner had been mended with a sliver of tape.It was eleven o’clock on Sunday night. The diner on Marlow Street was nearly empty. The owner had changed since we were young, and the vinyl was blue now instead of red, but the booth at the back was still the same. I knew it by the crack in the seat. It still scratched my leg.I could not speak. I picked up the boat with two fingers, as if it might fall apart.“You kept it,” I said at last.“You folded the first one. Do you remember? You said you could not stand to see my hands shake, so you gave me something to do with them.” Marcus almost smiled. “I made the rest
The Billionaire's Secret Bride chapter 563
Point of View: Elena“Do not look at the first page, Mrs. Sterling. Look at the last. The first page is who I was. The last page is who I owe.”Teodor Vance said it in the dayroom of the halfway house on Dunmore Road, on Sunday afternoon, with a mug of tea going cold in front of him. The room smelled of bleach and boiled cabbage. A television murmured in one corner. A man in a bathrobe slept upright in an armchair, with his mouth open. It was the plainest room I had ever sat in, and it was full of people trying very hard not to be seen.I had told Alexander I was going. He had asked me not to. I had said I needed to see the man with my own eyes, and that I would be home by supper. He had kissed my forehead and said, be careful. We both knew he meant something else.“Why did you agree to see me?” I asked.“Because you asked, and I have not been asked for anything in nine years.” He pushed a black notebook across the table. Its cover was worn gray at the corners. “Please. Look at the la
The Billionaire's Secret Bride chapter 562
Point of View: Alexander“You are not going to say it, Alexander. I can see it on your face. You want to tell me to send him away. Say it now, because after today I will not be able to hear it.”Marcus said it over a plate of eggs he had not touched. It was Saturday morning, early, and the kitchen on his side of the city was full of pale light. Vanessa stood at the stove with her back to us. Elena had stayed home, to sleep, and to give us room. I sat across from my brother with a cup of coffee going cold between my hands.On the table lay three sheets of paper. Marcus had set them out in a neat row, as he used to set out contracts.“These are what he brought,” he said. “Read them.”I picked up the first. It was a letter on gray government paper. It said that Teodor Vance had been released on conditional terms, and that for those terms to continue, he must have an approved sponsor and a verified place of work.“The second,” said Marcus.It was shorter. It came from a cousin in another
The Billionaire's Secret Bride chapter 561
Point of View: Elena“Turn off the engine, Alexander. If we sit here and stare, Marcus will feel it, and he will never forgive us for watching. Let him be alone with this for one more minute.”I said it with my hand on my husband’s sleeve. We were parked across the street from Marcus’s house on Friday night, under a streetlight that buzzed like a trapped fly. It was only a few hours since I had signed the letter that saved the school. My body still ached with that victory. I had wanted one quiet night to feel it.On the porch steps, two men sat in the yellow light. One was Marcus, with his elbows on his knees and his hands hanging between them. The other was a thin gray man in a coat that was too light for the weather. He sat one step lower, with his shoulders pulled in, like someone who expected to be hit.“That is him,” said Alexander. His voice was flat. “Teodor Vance.”“You know him?”“I knew him when I was young. He kept the books for my father’s old business.” He swallowed. “He
The Billionaire's Secret Bride chapter 560
Point of View: Elena“Elena, if you sign this, we lose the third floor, the kiln, and every grand plan you ever had. I would not blame you for looking at your hands. Are you truly sure?”Ada asked it softly, on Friday morning, in the school common room, with a pen held out in her fingers like something she was afraid to drop. Her keys were still in my pocket. She had not asked for them back. She had not asked for anything in six days.The Long Table stood in the middle of the floor. Around it sat the teachers, and Dani and Tobias, and Gerald with his cane across his knees. Julian Ashby sat at the far end, in the chair that said JULIAN. He had not spoken since he arrived. His hands were folded in his lap. The gray scarf lay on the table in front of him, neatly folded, like something he did not yet know how to carry.On the table lay four papers.The first was Julian’s resignation. The second was the foundation’s legal transfer, which returned the ownership of the painting called The Ta
You May Also Like
Billionaire's Match
Tangy Candy4.9M viewsBillionaire's Ex-wife is Mommy of Twins
Lami274668.0K viewsWrong Ride, Right Lover
Rainweather672.1K viewsForbidden Love Stories
Avi22Nash1.2M viewsReborn To Divorce My Ruthless Husband
Lavender Pen 16 viewsToo Late, Mr. Ex: I Am A Billionaire's Wife
Amorr Lambaa602 viewsTHE BILLIONAIRES 31-DAY CHRISTMAS CONTRACT
Steven star106 viewsTrail Leads Back
Shadow Ren111 views
